Posted on 07/26/2006 9:08:52 AM PDT by FreeManDC
It’s about time that we probe an assumption that has insidiously worked its way into our culture -- the notion that women are the guardians of goodness and grace, while all those male neanderthals are emissaries from the dark side.
I will freely admit that men indulge in a number of vices, those including gluttony, greed, and of course forgetting to put the toilet seat down. Growing up in the halcyon days of the Patriarchy, I was treated to my fair share of ribald humor. But nothing quite prepared me for what I saw a couple weeks ago.
Strolling at the local mall I spotted a young lass, maybe 13 years old. She was sporting a white T-shirt with an unusual picture. The shirt depicted a girl cold-cocking a boy. Above the how-to diagram were etched these words: “How to Drop a Boyfriend.”
For the last decade, we’ve been hearing the mantra, “There’s no excuse for domestic violence.” So how could anyone even think of wearing a shirt like that?
Of course the Lavender Ladies have long scorned traditional notions of feminine virtue. In her book Feminist Morality, Virginia Held haughtily dismisses the ideal of the unselfish, nurturing, and non-aggressive woman as “the whole female stereotype.”
So now we must ask, What happens to common morality when selfishness, aggressiveness, and all-around oafishness are held up as the cultural ideal for newly-liberated women?
I’m not going to dwell on the abortion issue. That’s because no one, not even the most rabid feminist, will claim that baby-killing is a virtuous action. Their excuse is that we must allow abortion so as to not put a crimp on a woman’s lifestyle options.
Let’s agree to put that one in the “selfish” category.
And what about our epidemic of hyper-aggressive females?
Our society is reeling from stories of sexually-assertive school teachers who prey on their male students. We find it incomprehensible that teenage girls would form into gangs and lurk in the alleyways. And research now shows that female-initiated partner violence is more common than the male variety. [www.unh.edu/news/cj_nr/2006/may/em_060519male.cfm ?type=n]
Think of Xena the Warrior Princess with premenstrual syndrome.
Which brings me to another one of my favorite T-shirts: “Girls Lie.”
Our society has become inundated with so many feminist prevarications that it has difficulty separating truth from falsehood.
Here goes: the oppressiveness of marriage, the stifling effects of childrearing, the gender wage gap, the epidemic of domestic violence against women, the exclusion of women from medical research, the shortchanging of schoolgirls, the catch-all insensitivity to women’s needs, and much, much more.
Which makes you wonder, How did the Nervous Nellies ever get through college without a Take Back the Night rally to steady themselves?
This is my personal favorite: “Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.” That insight comes to us by way of HRC.
Now visit any of the radical feminist websites – they seethe with anti-male diatribes and epithets. I’ve seen outright bigotry in my life, but nothing that quite compares with the rants of Andrea Dworkin, Catherine McKinnon, or Kate Millett.
Then there’s the fairness gene – or lack thereof.
Feminists squawk and fuss about “gender equality,” but once men become an endangered species on college campuses, all of a sudden the message shifts to “female empowerment.” When men die five years sooner than women, why does the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services fund Centers for Excellence for the ladies, but not the lads?
And if the women’s libbers want true equality, why aren’t they burning their bras so they can win the “right” to trek over to the post office on their 18th birthday to register for government service?
And now for the dirty little secret – feminists are the most intolerant people on the earth!
Last week the flap was over the Screen Goddess calendar that was adorned with 16 IT vixens. [www.itgoddess.info] Naturally the Champions of Choice became apoplectic. “Girls are often excluded from the possibility of the profession by its cultural maleness,” one woman shrieked.
And remember Larry Summers? He said there was a slight possibility that discrimination was not the reason for the small numbers of female physicists and rocket scientists. Even though he became a serial apologizer, the red-fems tarred and feathered the poor man and sent him packing from his Harvard U. presidency!
There’s a lesson to be learned here: You can never appease a feminist.
Napoleon Bonaparte once observed, “Female virtue has been held in suspicion from the beginning of the world, and ever will be.” That’s why as feminism gains, virtue wanes.
I was getting incoming. I'm running 2 pcs, a TV, police scanner, security cameras, replying to your post; someone walked in talking and the delicate balance went tumbling temporarily.
Oddly, I am, and always have been, in the public a lot. Even in MA, I haven't seen a "feminazi" for 25 years. I avoid Cambridge and Harvard Square, but no other places.
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How old are you? ;-)
I was taking a shower in preparation of going out, and my mind got to steaming along with it. I was thinking of the "stay-at-home" moms of past generations. Even as early as my grandparents' generation, my grandmothers stayed home, but they did NOT have time to read books, take kids to dance class, go to gymnastics, etc...etc... They worked hard. Both grandmothers worked in the fields, canned all the fruits of their labors, washed clothes on a washboard outside and hung them to dry on a line, shot dinner or killed something they raised, cooked 3 square meals a day (no mickie d's then), traded for clothes and shoes for their kids, and made their kids work when they weren't at school. So, if one is talking "quality time" with the kids....it wasn't how most of us are defining it now. ANd if you go on back to our pioneering ancestors, you see even less of the "time with the kids" and more of the hard work, survival ethics. So, I'm not sure our stay-at-home mothers are doing a great service all the time if they are just catering to the kids' whims and playing taxi driver. There is much more to it than that. Quality versus quantity does have some meaning here, whether we like it or not.
Gotta run...bbl! Interesting topic.
I love that line, it's just amazing. It's true women do lose these people in war, but they get to keep going on and build a new life, the dead men don't.
Geez....does one have to be both to qualify? Or if one is one, then is one the other, too? Do they go hand-in-hand? Help me...I'm corn-fused.... ;-)
Oh my, oh my....I have two daughters.... (24 and 21)
One works as a web designer for the Virginia Department of Health and is also in grad school in information systems.
One is a junior in college and is still trying to find herself, but works full-time as a nanny, too.
Hmmmmmmmmmmm.....
"Geez....does one have to be both to qualify? Or if one is one, then is one the other, too? Do they go hand-in-hand? Help me...I'm corn-fused.... ;-)"
lol I don't know if they have to be or not, it just seems that everyone I have met has turned out to be that way. That's not to mean every lesbian I have met is a feminazi, but every feminazi I have had the displeasure to meet has been a lesbian.
I was just having a little fun with you. Glad you realized it! Smiles...
I recognized it darlin, I'm not as big a jerk as some folks think I am *coughs* "derllak" *coughs* lol.
Holy crap! How many of them do you think there are?
Right up there with "Why must your head be higher than mine!?"
Well, I thought it was obvious that he was going to do it to build up evidence that he really is insane whenever he 'snaps' on his coworkers at the postal office...
That was one of my first attempts at trying to calm him down. I wanted to see if he'd think about what he said was in public and unpopular, but he didn't.
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